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Board Collectibles
Re: [ANN/INFO] CARDSMITHS - CURRENCY SERIES 2 TRADING CARDS - NEW FOR 2023
by
iHODLwell
on 26/11/2023, 06:35:30 UTC
I've checked out the Series 2 cards and I am disappointed. The quality of the cards and the gamification are improved.

The art is bad. It's as if they came up with ideas for a card, did a little sketch and said... this is good enough... onto the next card.
There are definitely a few cool cards in the series, but overall, it feels rushed and unintelligent in design.

There appears to be less congruence in this series. The tone and feel of the set is just... what is it? The only word I can think of is, lame.

It's unfortunate, as I collected Series 1 with some serious fervor.



Couldn’t agree more. This is series two in a nutshell. It’s unfortunate, but it is what it is. I have been accumulating but not like I did series 1. There are some card designs in series 2 that make tally sticks interesting. 🤨 More of the designs seem to have less and less to do with crypto, with many just having ‘art’ of items that have sold for money, so this somehow qualifies as a currency related card. Using this criteria would qualify literally anything as justification for a Cardsmiths currency card. I was hoping they would incorporate more alt coin art, instead there are more random things used as currency at some point in history or historically significant figures in history, some having some connection to currency, other not.. I get that it is a ‘currency’ card franchise but the primary base of collectors came from the crypto space. This is what made the cards interesting, and the art was captivating, mostly. They did improve the quality and presentation of the cards in many ways but overall, I couldn’t agree more with the statements mentioned in the quote above. To sum it up… Lame